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Thinking Outside the Blockchain Box: SMU Tackles Sustainability with High Tech Solutions
by Payton Potter | Feb 27, 2019
SMU's Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity is lowering the entry barrier to blockchain and finding high-tech solutions to poverty, environmental issues, homelessness, and roadblocks in healthcare—and it's just getting started.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Armor Defense's system to detect and extract malicious instructions on a virtual machine
• American Airline's departure sequencing system that includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer
• IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems of a computer system
• SanDisk Technologies' flash card end of life prediction based on memory wear
• an unassigned patent for a pull tab simulating a cannabis leaf cutout
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 20, 2019
The Gerald J. Ford Hall for Research and Innovation is being built to encourage advanced computing and interdisciplinary research at SMU. Housed inside will be the AT&T Center for Virtualization, the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, the Visualization Lab, and the newly relocated Hart eCenter and SMU Guildhall.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Groupchatter's wireless group alerting or messaging
• Match Group's profile matching
• Toyota's methods for adjusting vehicle parameters according to merging lanes
• Verizon and Redbox's system for a media-on-demand-based programming channel
• TXU Energy's analyzed energy usage and home automation
• An unassigned patent for an alarm that could prevent a passenger from being left in a vehicle
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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 29
by Quincy Preston | Feb 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros.
Patents granted include:
• Sensogram Technologies’ finger tip scanner
• Phazr’s 5G radio system
• Rain Bird’s volumetric budget-based irrigation control
• Samsung’s video editing using contextual data and content discovery using clusters
• V-Moda’s method of identifying authentic vs. counterfeit products
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include:
• Textron Innovations' apparatus for reconfiguring flight control of an aircraft during a failure while the aircraft is flying
• USAA's display screen with a financial workbench graphic user interface
• Verizon's device for increased bandwidth
• TI's feedforward cancellation of power supply noise
• Monument Peak Ventures' system for locating nearby picture hotspots
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by Blair Welch |
Jan 29, 2019
The SMU Master of Arts in Design and Innovation program is welcoming Helms, Intuit's VP of design, as its new mentor for the spring semester.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 25, 2019
You’ll also find out about how research at the University of Texas at Dallas may help determine who is at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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An illustration from ROKA Sports' Patent No. D837871 shows a new design for sport eyeglasses. [Source image: USPTO]
Dallas Invents: 131 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 8
by Quincy Preston | Jan 14, 2019
Patents were granted for ROKA Sports’ new design for sport eyeglasses; Capital One’s methods for tracking objects; Drexel University’s method of predicting seizures; Sierra Smart Systems’s electric vehicle fleet charging system; Securus’ detection for a call anomaly using biometric identification; SMU’s method of treating a subject that is resistant to one or more drugs; and Uber’s design for a firearm grip.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 9, 2019
Patents were granted for Lockheed's behavioral authentication of USB devices; IBM’s notifications issued about lost devices; Toyota's impairment evaluation system; Cinsay’s containerized software for virally copying from one endpoint to another; and FedEx’s system, device, and method for inspecting the cosmetic features of electronic devices.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 4, 2019
You'll also find out about an SMU physicist who's been named a fellow in a prestigious science group in the roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 2, 2019
Patents were granted for Reel Pro Motion’s system for recording and training athletes from multiple points of view; Dell’s platform for adopting settings to secure a protected file; UT’s method of detecting tumor cells; STMicroelectronics’ ceramic board with memory formed in the ceramic; and Sqwaq’s data transfer through a bonded communication link.
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Dallas Invents: 92 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 11
by Quincy Preston | Dec 19, 2018
Patents were granted for an unassigned patent for bullet-proof blinds; Conduent's Business Services' systems to automatically create and suggest compatible ride-sharing groups; HD LifeSciences inter-body fusion implant; SecurityProfiling real-time vulnerability profiling; and Vattaca's authentication tags and systems for golf clubs.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 12, 2018
Patents were granted for Match Group's method for matching using location information, Omnitracs' tire pressure optimization system, Raytheon's methods for sharpening multi-spectral imagery, and Speedgrocer's method for order fulfillment.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 5, 2018
Patents were granted for Toyota’s inventory robot, 1974 Productions’ method for delivering music content to a smart phone, Capital One’s machine-learning artificial intelligence system for identifying vehicles, Innovative Signal Analysis’ video-enabled inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles, and Securus Technologies’ multi-party conversation analyzer.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 4, 2018
Also, you’ll find leadership appointments and changes at Southern Methodist University, Sparked Connected, and Caregiver Inc. in this roundup of people news in North Texas.
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